Castle Valley

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Castle Valley
Creation time : 1120
Castle type : Höhenburg in spur location
Conservation status: Wall remains
Construction: Wall remains
Place: Valley
Geographical location 47 ° 53 '35.7 "  N , 11 ° 46' 48.6"  E Coordinates: 47 ° 53 '35.7 "  N , 11 ° 46' 48.6"  E
Burg Valley (Bavaria)
Castle Valley

The remains of the lost Burg Valley are on Schloßberg in Valley in the Upper Bavarian district of Miesbach .

history

Otto I. von Dachau-Valley is considered to be the castle founder . He has moved the seat he inherited from his wife in Grub to Valley. With the construction of the castles, the Mangfall valley, which is important in terms of traffic geography, could be monitored. The castle remained in the possession of the Counts of Valley for five generations .

The first castellan at the castle is an Oze (Ozi, Oßi) von Valley between 1127 and 1147; 1170 and 1175 a Walchoun prepositus de Ualaie is mentioned here, 1191 a Liutold is the castle captain on Valley. In addition, a Heinrich the chastenare and a Reinmarus venator (lat. Hunter) de Valaia , who looked after the hunt around 1189/90, are named as officials.

The sons of Otto I von Valley , Konrad I (before 1100 - 1162) and Gebhard (after 1100 - 1142), were supporters of the Guelph Duke Heinrich the Proud . The Staufer King Konrad III had this. the Duchy of Bavaria was taken away and handed over to Leopold IV of Babenberg in 1139 . When he tried to take control of the Duchy of Bavaria and besieged Castle Valley, he and Heinrich II von Wolfratshausen were killed on August 13, 1140 by the Duke's younger brother, Welf VI. , attacked and put to flight during the siege of the Valley.

After the death of the last Count of Valley, Otto III., Who died in 1268, the property passed to the Wittelsbachers , who were related to the Valleyers , but as early as 1231 Duke Ludwig the Kelheimer was named as a partner in Otto's castle. The Wittelsbach family transferred the castle to various administrators, first to the Ahaimers , who renamed the castle Ahamstein . In 1408 (until 1564) it was given back to them as a fief, on condition that it was renamed Valley again, which then happened. Wilhelm von Maxlrain acquired the castle in 1630. His successors built the New Palace in 1740 in the immediate vicinity of the castle .

Today only the name Schloßberg reminds of the former ancestral seat of the Counts of Valley; this was demolished around 1740 due to dilapidation. The core of the former castle corresponds to an elongated triangle with its base in the south; the extension in north-south direction is 90 m, the widest point is 30 m. In addition to the remains of the foundation wall, a wall arch can also be seen.

literature

  • Walburga Scherbaum: The Counts of Valley. In Ferdinand Kramer & Wilhelm Störmer (eds.), High Middle Ages Noble Families in Old Bavaria, Franconia and Swabia (= Studies on Bavarian Constitutional and Social History, Volume XX), pp. 271–301. Commission for Bavarian State History at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 2005. ISBN 376966874X (also available as PDF under [1] ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Buchner: Modern history of Bavaria under the regents from the House of Wittelsbach. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .